Los Angeles, CA, United States (Celebrity News Service) – While Blake Shelton was in search of “The Voice,” his record label wanted to silence his…by shutting down his Twitter account.
Shelton’s label bosses at Warner Bros. thought his Twitter messages were overly candid and sometimes offensive, like his tweet where he re-wrote some Shania Twain lyrics to read, “Any man that tries Touching my behind / He’s gonna be a beaten, bleedin’, heaving kind of guy.”
After the remarks were considered anti-gay, Shelton’s label heads wanted to prevent him from tweeting, something he and the rest of the judges regularly do for “The Voice.”
“There was a point where Warner Bros. was like, ‘We’ve got to get Blake off Twitter, ’cause he can’t say these type of things,’” Shelton told the New York Times.
Shelton apologized for his tweets after he was under pressure from critics and groups like GLAAD, but the tweets haven’t seemed to have caused him any distress.
His new album, “Red River Blue,” was just released on Tuesday. Featuring the hit single “Honey Bee,” it’s already at #1 on iTunes and is on its way to a big debut.
“I hope that people learn from me, it’s OK to be yourself,” Shelton said. “It’s OK to offend somebody, and, as a matter of fact, please be polarizing. If you’re not polarizing, you failed in my opinion. If you don’t stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?”
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